Directed by:
Dorothy ArznerScreenplay:
Zoe AkinsCinematography:
Bert GlennonCast:
Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Helen Chandler, Ralph Forbes, Irene Browne, Jack La Rue, Margaret Lindsay, Sherry Hall, Tiny Jones, Miki Morita (more)Plots(1)
Katharine Hepburn made her stunning screen debut as John Barrymore's daughter in 1932's A Bill of Divorcement. In Christopher Strong, Hepburn's second film and first star vehicle, the intelligent, liberated and unconventionally beautiful actress chose to play an intelligent, liberated and unconventionally beautiful aviatrix who soars into a torrid affair (with Colin Clive as a fellow aristocrat). . .and crashed into unendurable heartbreak. The melodramatic story is as much keen-edged steel as tears, thanks to Hepburn's gutsy performance and to the taut direction of Dorothy Arzner, classic Hollywood's only major female director. Among the film's highlights: Hepburn simply astonishing in silvery lame heading to a costume ball as the world's most glamorous moth. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Katharine Hepburn
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
On Golden Pond (1981)
Colin Clive
France
Best movies:
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
History Is Made at Night (1937)
Mad Love (1935)
Billie Burke
USA
Best movies:
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Helen Chandler
USA
Best movies:
Dracula (1931)
Christopher Strong (1933)
Ralph Forbes
UK
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
Stage Door (1937)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Irene Browne
UK
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Pygmalion (1938)
Christopher Strong (1933)
Jack La Rue
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Captains Courageous (1937)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Margaret Lindsay
USA
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
Jezebel (1938)
'G' Men (1935)
Sherry Hall
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Tiny Jones
UK
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Miki Morita
Japan
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
The Awful Truth (1937)
The Walking Dead (1936)
Desmond Roberts
UK
Best movies:
Murder Ahoy (1964)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
Agostino Borgato
Italy